#!/usr/bin/env bash # # gitwatch - watch file or directory and git commit all changes as they happen # # Copyright (C) 2013 Patrick Lehner # with modifications and contributions by: # - Matthew McGowan # - Dominik D. Geyer # ############################################################################# # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see . ############################################################################# # # Idea and original code taken from http://stackoverflow.com/a/965274 # (but heavily modified by now) # # Requires the command 'inotifywait' to be available, which is part of # the inotify-tools (See https://github.com/rvoicilas/inotify-tools ), # and (obviously) git. # Will check the availability of both commands using the `which` command # and will abort if either command (or `which`) is not found. # REMOTE="" BRANCH="" SLEEP_TIME=2 DATE_FMT="+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" COMMITMSG="Scripted auto-commit on change (%d) by gitwatch.sh" shelp () { # Print a message about how to use this script echo "gitwatch - watch file or directory and git commit all changes as they happen" echo "" echo "Usage:" echo "${0##*/} [-s ] [-d ] [-r [-b ]]" echo " [-m ] " echo "" echo "Where is the file or folder which should be watched. The target needs" echo "to be in a Git repository, or in the case of a folder, it may also be the top" echo "folder of the repo." echo "" echo " -s after detecting a change to the watched file or directory," echo " wait seconds until committing, to allow for more" echo " write actions of the same batch to finish; default is 2sec" echo " -d the format string used for the timestamp in the commit" echo " message; see 'man date' for details; default is " echo " \"+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S\"" echo " -r if defined, a 'git push' to the given is done after" echo " every commit" echo " -b the branch which should be pushed automatically;" echo " - if not given, the push command used is 'git push '," echo " thus doing a default push (see git man pages for details)" echo " - if given and" echo " + repo is in a detached HEAD state (at launch)" echo " then the command used is 'git push '" echo " + repo is NOT in a detached HEAD state (at launch)" echo " then the command used is" echo " 'git push :' where" echo " is the target of HEAD (at launch)" echo " if no remote was define with -r, this option has no effect" echo " -m the commit message used for each commit; all occurences of" echo " %d in the string will be replaced by the formatted date/time" echo " (unless the specified by -d is empty, in which case %d" echo " is replaced by an empty string); the default message is:" echo " \"Scripted auto-commit on change (%d) by gitwatch.sh\"" echo "" echo "As indicated, several conditions are only checked once at launch of the" echo "script. You can make changes to the repo state and configurations even while" echo "the script is running, but that may lead to undefined and unpredictable (even" echo "destructive) behavior!" echo "It is therefore recommended to terminate the script before changin the repo's" echo "config and restarting it afterwards." echo "" echo "By default, gitwatch tries to use the binaries \"git\" and \"inotifywait\"," echo "expecting to find them in the PATH (it uses 'which' to check this and will" echo "abort with an error if they cannot be found). If you want to use binaries" echo "that are named differently and/or located outside of your PATH, you can define" echo "replacements in the environment variables GW_GIT_BIN and GW_INW_BIN for git" echo "and inotifywait, respectively." } stderr () { echo $1 >&2 } while getopts b:d:hm:p:r:s: option # Process command line options do case "${option}" in b) BRANCH=${OPTARG};; d) DATE_FMT=${OPTARG};; h) shelp; exit;; m) COMMITMSG=${OPTARG};; p|r) REMOTE=${OPTARG};; s) SLEEP_TIME=${OPTARG};; esac done shift $((OPTIND-1)) # Shift the input arguments, so that the input file (last arg) is $1 in the code below if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then # If no command line arguments are left (that's bad: no target was passed) shelp # print usage help exit # and exit fi is_command () { # Tests for the availability of a command which $1 &>/dev/null } # if custom bin names are given for git or inotifywait, use those; otherwise fall back to "git" and "inotifywait" if [ -z "$GW_GIT_BIN" ]; then GIT="git"; else GIT="$GW_GIT_BIN"; fi if [ -z "$GW_INW_BIN" ]; then INW="inotifywait"; else INW="$GW_INW_BIN"; fi # Check availability of selected binaries and die if not met for cmd in "$GIT" "$INW"; do is_command $cmd || { stderr "Error: Required command '$cmd' not found." ; exit 1; } done unset cmd # Expand the path to the target to absolute path IN=$(readlink -f "$1") if [ -d $1 ]; then # if the target is a directory TARGETDIR=$(sed -e "s/\/*$//" <<<"$IN") # dir to CD into before using git commands: trim trailing slash, if any INCOMMAND="$INW --exclude=\"^${TARGETDIR}/.git\" -qqr -e close_write,move,delete,create $TARGETDIR" # construct inotifywait-commandline GIT_ADD_ARGS="." # add "." (CWD) recursively to index GIT_COMMIT_ARGS="-a" # add -a switch to "commit" call just to be sure elif [ -f $1 ]; then # if the target is a single file TARGETDIR=$(dirname "$IN") # dir to CD into before using git commands: extract from file name INCOMMAND="$INW -qq -e close_write,move,delete $IN" # construct inotifywait-commandline GIT_ADD_ARGS="$IN" # add only the selected file to index GIT_COMMIT_ARGS="" # no need to add anything more to "commit" call else stderr "Error: The target is neither a regular file nor a directory." exit 1 fi # Check if commit message needs any formatting (date splicing) if ! grep "%d" > /dev/null <<< "$COMMITMSG"; then # if commitmsg didnt contain %d, grep returns non-zero DATE_FMT="" # empty date format (will disable splicing in the main loop) FORMATTED_COMMITMSG="$COMMITMSG" # save (unchanging) commit message fi cd $TARGETDIR # CD into right dir if [ -n "$REMOTE" ]; then # are we pushing to a remote? if [ -z "$BRANCH" ]; then # Do we have a branch set to push to ? PUSH_CMD="$GIT push $REMOTE" # Branch not set, push to remote without a branch else # check if we are on a detached HEAD HEADREF=$(git symbolic-ref HEAD 2> /dev/null) if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then # HEAD is not detached PUSH_CMD="$GIT push $REMOTE $(sed "s_^refs/heads/__" <<< "$HEADREF"):$BRANCH" else # HEAD is detached PUSH_CMD="$GIT push $REMOTE $BRANCH" fi fi else PUSH_CMD="" # if not remote is selected, make sure push command is empty fi # main program loop: wait for changes and commit them while true; do $INCOMMAND # wait for changes sleep $SLEEP_TIME # wait some more seconds to give apps time to write out all changes if [ -n "$DATE_FMT" ]; then FORMATTED_COMMITMSG="$(sed "s/%d/$(date "$DATE_FMT")/" <<< "$COMMITMSG")" # splice the formatted date-time into the commit message fi cd $TARGETDIR # CD into right dir STATUS=$($GIT status -s) if [ -n "$STATUS" ]; then # only commit if status shows tracked changes. $GIT add $GIT_ADD_ARGS # add file(s) to index $GIT commit $GIT_COMMIT_ARGS -m"$FORMATTED_COMMITMSG" # construct commit message and commit if [ -n "$PUSH_CMD" ]; then $PUSH_CMD; fi fi done